Yawapi means writing!

If you have a school-age child these days, you have probably noticed that the way math is being taught today is a lot different than the way it was taught in past years. Children are learning “number sense” starting in the 1st grade, and for some parents, this is stirring up a lot of math anxiety.

I’m really excited about the “new math” as it’s being called. When my son was in the 4th grade, I expressed my excitement to my son’s teacher during a parent-teacher conference and she hugged me.

Really, she actually hugged me and told me how grateful she was to hear that as all the other parents kept complaining that they didn’t understand the work and couldn’t help their kids with it.

I stopped using toxic household cleaners years ago. The scents and fumes left me choking! Since then I have spent a lot of time experimenting with different non-toxic cleaning materials to find the products that work best for me. Below I share my five favorite non-toxic cleaning products.

I’m a first-timer at this, and I found the experience emotional to say the least. As I stood there holding the little hand of this little girl that I’ve fussed over for the past five years, I wondered what it would be like in the fall, to spend half of our weekdays apart.